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Tarboroitgh, ( Edgecombe County, X. C.) Friday, October it, 1833.
Vol X'o -1
The "Tarborottgh Free Press,1
(SEURGE IIOWAUH,
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Letters addressed to the Editor must be post paid,
or they may not be attended to.
Mr. Radgcr's Address. We are fa
vored by the publisher in this ciiy with
the following Letter, from a gentleman
of high literary reputation in New York,
whose praise must be gratifying to the
Orator. Richmond Euq.
"New York, 21th Sept. 1833.
"Dear Sir: The only apology I can
offer for omitting to acknowledge the re
ceipt of Judge Badger's Address, thro'
your politeness, is, that I have not been
able until yesterday, to read it with the
attention it so well merits. I consider
these addresses from the distinguished
men of our country, to the youth, many
of whom are destined to become so, as
among the most valuable of our literarv
productions, and have met with none
more so, in my opinion, than that of the
accomplished and learned Judge. It is
full of good principles, good advice, and
what is still more rare, in productions of
this kind good taste. It is warm, en
ergetic and impressive, without being in
the least declamatory; and the justness of
its principles is not more remarkable
th in the purity of the language in which
they are inculcated. I have not just now
leisure to advert to those doctrines, and
passages with which 1 have been most
struck, nnd can only say, that the notice
of Mr. Gaston gave me particular grati
fication, by recalling more vividly to my
recollection, a gentleman with whose ac
quaintance I was once honored at Wash
ington, whom ! have not forgotten, and
who I hope has not forgotten me. 1 beg
ydu to communicate in seme way or oth
er, my acknowledgments to Judge Bad
ger, for the instruction as well as gratifi
cation I have received through his means,
and to assure him I have no fears for my
country, when I see such iru i adminis
tering its laws, at the same time that they
occasionally descend from the bench to
become the Mentors of those young men,
to whom they have at all times afforded
a noble example.
"With many thanks for your attentions,
"1 am, dear Sir, your friend and ser
vant, J. K. PAULDING.
Mr. T. V. White, Richmond."
Periodical Press of North Carolina.
Peregrine Roberts, Esq. has issued pro
posals for publishing in Lincolnton, a
weekly newspaper on an imperial sheet,
to be called the "Lincoln Herald."
Terms, three dollars per annum. Mr.
It. is reputed to be a man of abilities,
und we b?ive no doubt will be a valuable
acquisition to the editorial corps.
There are already published in this
State, twenty-four weekly and two month
ly periodicals, located in the following
places: Raleigh, 3-Sulisbury, 3 New
hern, 2 Fayetteville, 2 Edenton, (1
weekly and 1 monthly) 2 Wilmington,
1 Tarbnroiigb, 1 Halifax, 1 Wiud
8or, 1 Elizabeth City, 1 Warrenton,
1 Chapel Hill, I Hillsborough, 1
Greensborougb, 1 Milton, 1 New Sa
lem, (monthly) 1 Salem, 1 Charlotte,
1 Uulherlnrdton, 1.
Within the last twelve months four pa
pers have been discontinued for want of
patronage the "Advocate" at Elizabeth
City (the "Patriot" at Greenville) the
"Union" at Washington and the "Re
flector" at Viltsborotigh, Harbinger.
Quandary. The election for Sheriff
s held biennially; but he is obliged to re
new his bonds yearly. The law requires
that a majority of all the magistrates in
ihe county shall be prevent to receive the
bond, and if not taken before 2 o'clock,
on Wednesday, the office of Sheriff is
vacated. At the September term of the
Court of Plea and Quarter Sessions
held in this town last Week, the Sheriff's
bonds were not taken, there not being the
requisite number of magistrates present.
The Court was therefore held by the Co
roner, and vVe have no Sheriff in the
county. The Clerk of the Court is in
the same predicament.
VVe trust a remedy will be applied by
the ensuing Legislature; for although
the Coroner can perform the duties of
Sheriff, and prevent any serious inconve
nience to the public, yet the magistrates
have it at any time in their power to de
feat the wishes of the people, by refusing
to attend to take bonds from the person
of their choice. We do not suppose
they would use the power for so nefari
ous a purpose, but neither they nor any
other persons ought to possess the pow
er. There must be some penally to com
pel their attendance; at least on important
occasions or else some other regula
tion adopted concerning the bonds of the
Sheriff and Clerk. Wilmington Press.
C7"A man by the name of'Roseberry
was convicted of stealing a sheep at the
Fall Term, (last week) of Surry Superi
or Court. He was sentenced to receive
25 lashes, which was duly administered
on Saturday evening, and which he bore
not very philosophically. We under
stand that his greatest complaint was
that he had to take all the whipping while
the Stale's witness Killian got half of the
mutton. Salisbitry Watchman.
Raleigh, Oct. 4. The Superior Court
of Wake commenced its Fall Term, in
this city, on Monday last, Judge Martin
presiding.
On Tuesday, John G. Wo mack was
tried for forging a note, and convicted.
The Jury, in consequence of his youth
and the respectability of his connexions,
unanimously recommended him to the
clemency of the Governor, requesting
that so much of the sentence as pre
scribes the infliction of corporal punish
ment, be dispensed with.
On the same day, Jonathan Lewis was
arraigned on a charge of Arson, it being
alleged that he set fire to Capt. Cobbs's
coach shop in June last, by which a num
ber of houses on Fayetteville street were
consumed; when he declared his inten
tion of filing an affidavit to remove his
trial." On the following day, he filed his
affidavit, and the Court ordered his trial
to be removed to Franklin county.
There are no other criminal eases of
importance on the Docket, and the above
named individuals are both from other
counties. Star.
on his way to Norfolk, the port of em
barkation, and thus frustrated the bene
volent intentions of the Executive.
Raleigh Star
More Emigrants Offered. A letter
from a Very respectable colored man in
Savannah, states that there are upwards
of eighty free people in that city ready
and anxious to embark for Liberia; near
ly all of whom are members of the Tern
perance Society; twenty-three of them
professors of religion, and several of
them excellent mechanics. Such a com
pany would be a most valuable acquisi
tion to the colony, and we are glad to
hear that an etfort is likely to be made in
Boston to provide the funds necessary
for their removal to Africa.
We understand, also, that the Rev.
John Stockdelle, of Madison county,
Virginia, lately deceased, bequeathed
freedom to more than thirty slaves, und
made provision, by his will, for defraying
the entire expense of their removal to
Liberia. Nal. Int.
The Cotton Speculation. We have
been informed of various large sums of
money suddenly made, within the last
ten days, by the great and unexpected
rise in this staple article. One instance,
as it did not occur here, we may be per
mitted to relate. A New Orleans mer
chant, largely concerned in the cotton
trade, happening to be in New York, the
notion took him to make a trip to Liver
pool, to which he was in reality induced
more by the superior accommodations of
the New York packets, than from any
call of business. He had no sooner lan
ded in Liverpool than he made himself in
a few days perfectly familiar with the
state of the cotton market. This know
ledge, united to his full acquaintance with
the market in this country, satisfied him
that a rise was about to take place in
England. . He proceeded to employ an
agent, who purchased on his account a
very large amount of cotton. Before ev
en the bills could be made out, and the
cottoti delivered to him, the rise in price,
which now agitates this market, suddenly
took place; and so great was the advance
from day to day, that in one week the sa
gacious New Orleans merchant re-sold
his cotton, without having been obliged
even to pay porterage, for a cash advance
of $200,000. Philadelphia Gaz.
York. From the report of the Pruden
tial Committee it appears that the Board
has at present twenty-two different mis
sions, comprising sixty different stations.
The missionary work at these ctations isj
carried on by eighty-three ordained mis
sionaries, six physicians, not ordained,
six printers, iweniy-six other assistant
missionaries, farmers, mechanics, &c.
and one hundred and twenty-six females,
two hundred and forty-seven sent fmni
the churches of this country; and four na
tive preachers, and forty six native assist
ants. Total, two hundred andtninety
seven. Of these, forty-eight were sent
forth within the past year. The receipts
of the Board the past year amounted to
8145,844 77, which added to the balatieo
in the treasury at the commencement of
the year, gave 152,522 41, of funds at
the disposal of the committee during the
year. Of this sum was expended in
prosecuting the objects of the Board
$149,906 27, leaving in the treasury of
disposable funds, a balance of $2,616 4.
Melancholy Occurrence. The Char
lottesville Va. Chronicle of the 25-h tilt,
says: On Sunday evening last, a gentle
man travelling on horseback, stopped, at
one of our hotels, anil feeling rather in
disposed, retired early to bed, his supper
was sent to Iris room, and while eating
was seized with a fit of coughing; he im
mediately ran down to the bar room, and
exclaimed that he was choked. Medical
aid was immediately applied for, hot in a
few minutes his breathing stopped; his
windpipe was then opened, which gave
him relief for a short lime, he however
expired in about two or three htiirs.
His chest was examined by the physi
cians, and a piece of beef, (a largo
mouthful) was found in the windpipe as
low as it could possibly get; some eight
or ten inches below the root of his
tongue. We understand that from pa
pers found in his possession, it appears
that his name was B dl, and that he resi
ded in or near Fredericksburg, and had
been on to the Springs for his' health
and was on his return homo.
Rising. The Hon. James Brown
Ray, late Governor of Indiana, has issu
ed proposals for publishing a paper, to
be called The Hoosier, at Greencastle,
in that State.
Q7Thc celebrated Washington Ta
burn, who was sentenced to death some
time since, but pardoned by Gov. Swain,
upon condition that he would leave the
State, passed through this place on Sat
urday, on his way to Granville jail. He
was apprehended in Northampton couo-
ty, as we have uccn tntormea.
Warrenton Reporter.
It is perhaps time to correct the mis
apprehension which seems to prevail on
this subject. Taburn was not pardoned
on condition that be would leave the
State, or upon any other condition, and
the judgment of death stands in full force
against him. At the time he made his
escape, the Sheriff of Granville had in
his hands a written pledge from both the
late and present Executive, that the con
vict should be pardoned, whenever the
American Consul at Port au Prince
al.nubl certify that he had arrived in Hay
di hia escaDe from the Sheriff
DtviVs Chicken's own Luck. On
Wednesday last, the $20,000 prize was
drawn by a singular man, in a singular
manner. A package of Tickets in f.'ne
New York Literary Lottery, had been
stolen from a vender; he advertised them,
but of course with only a sl;4aht hope of
recovery, and yet a few ways after hro'i
him a penitential note from ihe conscien
tious thief, wb'oreiiv he expressed himself
shocked at his crime, and anxious to re
pair damages, and offered to pay the full
valu of the package, providing that no
legal measures should be taken, and a
certificate given him that he was entitled
to the amount of such prizes as might be
drawn: he having in fit of caution or re
morse, destroyed the evidence of pros
pective drafts on Dame Fortune. His
offer was met, the money paid and a
mongst the numbers he procured were
the three spelling $20,000.. .New York St.
(TJlt is estimated that the pecuniary
loss of Louisiana by the death of slaves
from the Cholera, is 84,000,000.
Foreign Missions. The twenty-fourth
annual meeting of the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions,
was recently held in the city of New
Manufactories. We feel an honest
pride in giving publicity t0 (he following
evidence of public spiri t ar4d enterprise on
the part of our citizen. Taking into
consideration the fact that much of our
capital had been already engaged in sim
ilar undertakings, evinces an extent of
resources and a r.eadiness to apply them
which can only Ve the consequence of re
newed and increasing prosperity. A
subscription for a stock of $120,000 la
be invested in the establishment of Cot
ton an 'j other manufactories, was opened
on Tuesday last, and the whole amount
readily made up in the course of two
hours. 830,000 more could have been
easily obtained, during the day, if requir
ed. We understand that an application
will be made to the next Legislature, for
an act of incorporation. Petersburg Int.
Singular. In Mr. Flint's Indian Wars
of the West, he relates the following:
"On the side of a mountain in Ten
nessee, are the marks of the footsteps of
men and horses in the limestone in great
numbers, and as though they were tho
tracks of an army. Some of the tracks
show as if the army had slipped in miry
clay. All have the appearance of being
au actual impression in soft clay, which
afterwards hardened to stone, retaining
a perfect impression. Characters of
great freshness of coloring, are marked
upon many of the high bluffs, that im
pend the western rivers. Inscriptions of
tiiis sort are found in Missouri, on the Il
linois, and in various other places. A
remarkable track of a human foot was
found in a solid block of limestone, on
the bank of the Mississippi at St. Louis.
The most ancient traditions of the West
do not touch the origin of these mounds
or characters."